yes they did, but it means nothing as the Cards had a vanilla offense and had nothing special for the O line for blitz calls....they will now
the game was horrible for the Cards and way over rated on both sides.
Yes Gruden came in to kill KM....for what reason I'm not sure, but he had a motive...that was clear

yes they did, but it means nothing as the Cards had a vanilla offense and had nothing special for the O line for blitz calls....they will now
the game was horrible for the Cards and way over rated on both sides.
Yes Gruden came in to kill KM....for what reason I'm not sure, but he had a motive...that was clear

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He did cards a favor, for Murray doesn’t know how to handle the blitz because teams in NCAA never did.

NFL teams have more blitz options than you can imagine. Depending on what stunts you call blitzes 20 or more would be common. There are 3 basic types of zone blitzes, there’s man blitzes and numerous line stunts. There are typically labeled by which position blitzes (safety blitz), targeted area (A gap for example from the Raider game) or some cute name with no football reference (blonde blitz). Of course the formation 3-4 or 4-3 typically controls the choices available. In the Raiders game they just used a few blitzes from their packages. I sure this was the game plan though it was not nearly as complex as a regular seasons’ would have been.

I didn’t say they were as good as them, I said the scheme and style of plays are similar.... you do realize KK coached Mahomes....right? Not that far a leap to assume he wants his defense ready for that.

“I’m just tellin’ you, when I studied Murray,” Gruden tells his players. “You can say whatver you want. But I ain’t ever seen a quarterback that runs 4.3 that’s a dual threat like this guy. We make a mistake on him, all right, he can hurt us real bad. We gotta contain him, we’ve gotta get after his ass. Have a respect for this cat, now. And he can run, and he can throw. And he doesn’t need a lot of protection. He can find cracks in the defense, he keeps his vision down the field. And it’s hard to flick the ball 60 yards like that on a dime. So this guy’s dangerous. Respect him. Let’s get after his ass.”

Get after his ass the Raiders did, blitzing him multiple times and making him look like much more of a work in progress than he did a week earlier, against the Chargers. After the game against the Raiders, Murray approached receiver Antonio Brown.